Guess who broke the longest drift record? BMW

The ultimate drifting machine?

On May 11, BMW shattered the Guinness World Record for longest sustained drift at its Performance Center near Greenville, South Carolina. BMW driving
instructor Johan Schwartz drifted an unmodified M5 sedan an unbelievable 51.278 miles, or a total of 322.5 laps around the Performance Center's skid pad.

He did so in a 2013 BMW M5 Sedan equipped with a M-DCT transmission pulled from the Performance Center school fleet, where Schwartz teaches students of all
ages how to drive both defensively and aggressively.

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Johan bested the previous record (11,180 meters, almost 6.95 miles), which was set by Abdo Feghali on February 15th at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates, by 44.328 miles.